I have a pain management Dr. and he is wonderful. My sister also has one as she is recovering from cancer and also has RA and is facing hip replacement surgey. (I'm only facing back surgery).
I feel that pain management is very helpful.
They have a pain management staff at the cancer center and we will be talking with them soon. It should be time to ween her off the harder drugs pretty soon (hopefully).
In 1999 she was in a horrible accident and when they released her from the hospital (3 months later) she just decided one day to stop her meds because she wasn’t in horrible pain anymore. To make a long story short, she started having full fledged withdrawals. She was addicted to morphine and had no clue! Now we can laugh about it, but it wasn’t funny at the time. She thought she was going crazy and so did we....LOL
Then....the only way medicare would pay for treating her was if she was put in a drug addiction center for 30 days! It was horrible. That’s government healthcare at work folks....LOL